Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders Donald Trump’s much ballyhooed foreign policy speech was a minor disaster. Not only did Trump fail to set out a succinct foreign policy philosophy and agenda, but the speech itself [even with a teleprompter] was a failure in his effort to move to a more “presidential” persona. One […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Norman Bailey Israel has no choice but to deal with unsavory regimes but it might be a mistake to renew ties with Turkey. The communist leadership of China; President Putin of Russia; Turkey’s Erdogan, King Salman of Saudi Arabia. Should Israel deal with such regimes? They are all wholesale violators of […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Parris H. Chang Chairman Xi Jinping of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) on Nov. 7 summoned President Ma Ying-jeou of the Republic of China (ROC) on Taiwan to a meeting in Singapore. The international media has hailed the meeting historic, as it brought together the leaders of the PRC and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com North Korea’s Atomic Energy Institute (AEI) confirmed on Sept. 15 that Pyongyang has restarted the nuclear reactor that is its main source of weapons-grade plutonium. The confirmation by the AEI came after the leader of Pyongyang’s national space agency hinted at a possible satellite rocket launch next month. Analysts said the two […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The head of Iran’s nuclear energy agency said China will likely build two new nuclear power plants in Iran and that construction on two additional plants by Russia is set to start this year. “We are in talks with the Chinese over the construction of two 100-MW power plants,” said Ali Akbar […]
Lev Navrozov From Moscow, the capital of the slave country founded in 1917, I came to New York, to the 21st floor of a skyscraper. The owners of the slave country had created their radio and television and even their own art and philosophy — in short, they created a new culture, with inevitable shortcomings. […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Kurds in the Syrian north offer one of the few glimmers of hope in a region where religious minorities are brutalized, repressed and at risk of genocide. Minority Rights Group International (MRG) issued its 2015 Peoples Under Threat list and Syria was at the top after five years of war that has […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The Kremlin says North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will not come to Moscow for May 9 Victory Day ceremonies. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said on April 30 that Kim “decided to stay in Pyongyang” and that the decision was connected with domestic […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The rhetoric reached the heights of the Himalayas, the pomp and pageantry evoked that of an operetta, but the political optics delivered a clearly focused political message: Pakistan has a firm and reliable friend in the People’s Republic of China. The high profile visit to […]
Special to WorldTribune.com By Brian M Downing The Islamist State of Iraq and Levant is seeking to capitalize on its summer offensives in Syria and Iraq by establishing itself as the leader of Islamist militancy – this, at the expense of Al Qaida. Spirits are high in ISIL, but Afghanistan will prove a difficult place […]